Abstract:

Daily log of activities kept by Brass during the 3rd of the Archbold Expeditions. The bulk of the journal contains general observations of the local flora and his collecting and photography activities. Includes descriptions of the vegetation and land from the air, during his travel to the expedition and the many reconnaissance flights on the Guba. Brass also describes the organization and establishment of the expedition camps and supply deliveries, the movements of his fellow participants and native workers, and the activities of the Guba. A copy of a letter from Archbold detailing his efforts to find a route to scale Mt. Wilhelmina (Mount Trikora) is included, as are excepts of notes from numbered field books. Some of the locations cited include Batavia, Hollandia (Jayapura), Lake Habbema, the Idenberg River (Taritatu River) , the Bele River, the Baliem valley, Makassar, Lake Sentani, Kaiabu and the camps on Mt. Wilhelmina. Leonard J. Brass (1900-1971) was an Australian botanist and Associate Curator of the Archbold Collections in the American Museum of Natural History Department of Mammalogy. He began his expeditionary work for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and was brought into the Archbold Expeditions by Richard Archbold in 1933 for the 1st of the New Guinea Expeditions. He would join all but the last of the New Guinea Expeditions, leading the 4th, 5th and 6th, as well as the expedition to Cape York. He participated in other American Museum of Natural History expeditions, and also maintained ties with the Arnold Arboretum. Brass was involved in a research directorial capacity at the Archbold Biological Research Station in Florida from its inception in 1941 and retired in 1966.

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Journal primarily deals with organization of expedition, including communication between camps, delivery of supplies, movement of the parties and the daily activities of himself, other participants and expedition workers, ...

Archbold, Richard.; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Archbold Expeditions Collection.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd : 1938-1939); American Museum of Natural History.(1939)

Journal entries recorded by Archbold as leader and pilot of the 3rd Expedition to New Guinea. Topics include the daily activities of Archbold, general activities of the expedition party members, and description of the ...

Rand, Austin Loomer, 1905-1982.; American Museum of Natural History.; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (2nd : 1936-1937); Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd : 1938-1939); American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection.([between 1936 and 1938], 1938)

Material Austin Rand compiled regarding the Archbold Expeditions to New Guinea, includes a proposed outline for the 1938 expedition and locality information. Material appears to have been written both before and after ...